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Applied Seminar - Valentina Melentyeva (Cologne)

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2023
Title: Child Penalty Estimation and Mothers’ Age at First Birth Abstract: Child penalty estimations based on event study methods have become a popular tool to assess changes in labor…

Can you count on interpreters to have “super-skills”? Professionalization and the interplay between education, practice, and research in Public Service Interpreting (PSI)

14:00 - 15:30 27 April 2023
CTIS Research Seminar 3 The talk explores factors that influence professionalization within Public Service Interpreting. From the vantage point of a general model of professionalization…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Jack, University of Edinburgh, Biblical Themes in Contemporary Crime Fiction

14:10 - 15:30 27 April 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Nuclear Hydrogen | Dalton Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2023
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cw7mshFF4Q There has been a lot of press around the 'hydrogen economy' and the role nuclear has to play in this. Join us for…

IDSAI Seminar: Professor Claudio Angione

14:00 - 15:00 2 May 2023
Speaker: Claudio Angione, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Teesside University (TU) Title: Combining machine learning and metabolic modelling approaches to characterise the…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

13:00 - 14:00 2 May 2023
Speaker: Anja Meyer - Manchester Title: The mod-3 cohomology of a Sylow-3-subgroup of SL_2(Z/3^nZ) Abstract: The cohomology of matrix groups with entries in fields has been well studied.…

Abigail Mellor - Asymptotic analysis and efficient numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck Equations (with application to derivatives pricing)

12:00 - 13:00 3 May 2023
Abigail Mellor (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) The Fokker-Planck Equations (FPEs) are ubiquitous in numerous disciplines, not least in…

Chloe Ireton (UCL): Tracing a History of Black Thought in 16th-century Sevilla.

17:00 - 18:30 3 May 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective (R3). Room: Samuel Alexander A214. This…

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Sophia Hatzisavvidou

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 2023
Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath)

From data storage to programmable photonics: new applications need new materials

12:00 - 13:00 3 May 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Robert Simpson. The objective of this seminar is to highlight that new materials need to be developed specifically for programmable…

Logic semina: Kristina Vuskovic (Leeds) Unusual time

11:00 - 12:00 3 May 2023
Title: Structure and algorithms Abstract: In this talk we survey structural characterizations of different hereditary graph classes (i.e. classes closed under deletion of vertices),…

MET Seminar - Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey (Berkeley)

17:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Title: Redistribution Through Tax Relief Abstract: This paper studies politically feasible policy solutions to inequities in local public goods provision. I focus in particular on…

Applied Seminar - Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2023
Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford, Symmachus, ‘the translator of the Jews’: what a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible can tell us about religious life in early 3rd C Palestine

14:10 - 15:30 4 May 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

The Problem of Poverty (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2023
Dennis Pirdzuns (University of Manchester Abstract: Poverty is an obvious moral and political problem. An exceptional unanimity prevails in the theoretical literature that poverty…

The Science Behind the Star Wars Movies

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2023
Alain Hostettler and Sam Cordingley from ILM will be visiting the Department on May 4th, 2023, 2 - 3pm, to present a talk about the science behind the movies. If you are interested…

Austerity and Solidarity

12:00 - 13:30 9 May 2023
Our next AALC seminar is focused on the topic: Austerity and Solidarity. With this online event we focus on resistance to, and in spite of austerity, and also consider how this topic…

High Reynolds number turbulent drag reduction by spanwise wall forcing

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Abstract of the talk Turbulent friction drag is an inevitable source of power consumption for aircrafts, trains, pipelines, and many other industrial applications. Significant efforts…

Macro Seminar - Anastasios Karantounias (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 May 2023
Title: A general theory of tax-smoothing

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ruben La

13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Ruben La - Oxford Title: Maximality properties of generalised Springer representations of SO(N,C) Abstract: Let C be a unipotent class of G and E an irreducible G-equivariant…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Philippe Michaud-Jacobs

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Philippe Michaud-Jacobs (Warwick) Title: Isogenies of elliptic curves and Diophantine equations Abstract: Isogenies are the basic building blocks of maps between elliptic…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 13:50 10 May 2023
Title: Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Division of Psychology & Mental Health May Research Seminar: 'The best of both worlds: the value of mixed methods in applied health research' - Dr Chris Keyworth (Leeds)

12:00 - 13:00 10 May 2023
Please join us in May for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Wednesday 10th May 12:00 - 13:00 *virtual seminar*. For the divisional seminar in May, we…

James Baker -- Seeing inside moving material: Dynamic x-ray imaging of granular flows

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 2023
Join us for this seminar by James Baker (Liverpool John Moores University) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Branding innovation: place branding through leveraging innovation discourses in the case of Alfred Noel's Karlskoga

13:30 - 14:30 10 May 2023
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23 with Register to attend via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-institute-of-innovation-research-dr…

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